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UNINA9910827320903321 |
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Titolo |
Understanding rock [[electronic resource] ] : essays in musical analysis / / edited by John Covach and Graeme M. Boone |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997 |
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0-19-772952-5 |
0-19-988012-3 |
1-4237-4048-3 |
1-280-45166-1 |
0-19-535662-4 |
1-60256-076-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (427 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CovachJohn Rudolph |
BooneGraeme M <1954-> (Graeme MacDonald) |
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Rock music - History and criticism |
Rock music - Analysis, appreciation |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; 1 Progressive Rock, "Close to the Edge," and the Boundaries of Style; 2 After Sundown The Beach Boys' Experimental Music; 3 Blues Transformations in the Music of Cream; 4 Joanie" Get Angry k. d. lang's Feminist Revision; 5 Swallowed by a Song Paul Simon's Crisis of Chromaticism; 6 "Little Wing" A Study in Musical Cognition; 7 Tonal and Expressive Ambiguity in "Dark Star"; Index |
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Amid the recent increase in scholarly attention to rock music, Understanding Rock stands out as one of the first books that subjects diverse aspects of the music itself to close and sophisticated analytical scrutiny. Written by some of the best young scholars in musicology and music theory, the essays in this volume use harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, formal, and textual approaches in order to show how and why rock music works as music. Topics of discussion include the |
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adaptation of blues and other styles to rock; the craft of songwriting; techniques and strategies of improvisation; the reinterpr |
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UNINA9910156176903321 |
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Winston Churchill : politics, strategy and statecraft / / edited by Richard Toye |
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London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017 |
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9781474263887 |
1474263887 |
9781474263870 |
1474263879 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 pages) |
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HIS015000HIS037070HIS027000 |
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Prime ministers - Great Britain |
Great Britain Politics and government 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Introduction -- 2. Churchill: The Young Statesman, 1901-1914 -- 3. Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, 23 October 1911 - 24 May 1915 -- 4. Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924-9) and the Return to the Gold Standard -- 5. Churchill and Labour -- 6. Churchill and the General Strike, 1926 -- 7. Churchill and Women -- 8. Churchill and Empire -- 9. Churchill and the Islamic -- 10. Churchill and Airpower -- 11. Churchill as Strategist in World War Two -- 12. The Birth of the Anglo-American 'Special Relationship' -- 13. Churchill and Nuclear Weapons -- 14. Winston Churchill and the Cold War -- Index. |
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"A collection of short, accessible chapters on the key aspects of Winston Churchill's military and political career and his impact on 20th-century history."-- |
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